Come for the star-studded murder mystery, stay for the important stories about women with Big Little Lies on Showmax
You would easily be forgiven for looking at Big Little Lies and dismissing it as “Desperate Housewives with A-listers”. Certainly as you get to know the wealthy ladies of Monterey, California with their beachside homes as lush as their families and soap opera worries about fund-raises and mom-group politics, you may feel like you’ve taken an accidental detour into fancier Wisteria Lane. But then you get to the murder. And the emotionally resonant real-world stories of women and the repercussions of abuse.